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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals influence our research and your learning


Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

There needs to be a fundamentally different approach to security of the entire maritime infrastructure meaning there is great need for specific cyber security research programmes focused on the maritime sector.

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Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Research and Innovation

80% of international trade is by sea and is increasingly under threat from cyber attacks.
Conceptual design of a cyber security network

Our researchers are innovating ways to improve and develop industries and infrastructure

We are recognised as an innovative leader in higher education for sustainability, across teaching and learning, research and our University operations

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Cyber-SHIP Lab
We have the world's first Cyber-SHIP lab, which investigates the most pressing technological threats posed to global shipping

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Centre for Systems Thinking: Ocean, Land and Society
Solving a wide range of issues through a whole-system transdisciplinary approach

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MAterials and STructures (MAST) Research Group
Research that explores structural, mechanical, marine, composites and civil engineering

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